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TWW is The Warped Woodturner who is a local artist living in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop 87). His mission is to use a wood lathe to make interesting but mostly useless objects from locally-sequestered carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but don't like that well. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/23/School-Obama-s-Daughters-Attend-Has-11-Armed-Guards-Not-Counting-Secret-ServiceA few facts from some other Bovine Scatology people:

"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 57% of public schools in the United States had no security staff present at any time during the week in 2009-2010, the most recent year data were available. Even more — nearly 70% — had no police officer in the school every week."

"The number of schools with security guards or police officers hasn't changed much since 2004, when 45% of schools said they had security staff present on a regular basis."

Sunday, December 23, 2012

This is from the website: http://kontradictions.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/why-not-renew-the-assault-weapons-ban-well-ill-tell-you/ (note: written before the current hysteria)Quotes:

"Between Two Worlds

It’s not easy being a leftist who loves guns. It’s like being a Republican who listens to NPR or supports single payer health care. But being a leftist, I get exposed to all the liberal publications and media that invariably call for gun control every time someone does something stupid with one. Being a gun enthusiast, I also get exposed to the political Right’s oversimplification of those liberals as somehow lacking moral fiber or true appreciation of freedom. Rather than agreeing with both, I tend to end up arguing with both. It’s exhausting to always feel like I’m apologizing for the other “side”. "

On bans:

"There were about 1.5 million of these “assault weapons” already owned by Americans, and far more high-capacity magazines. In order to actually ban them, the government had to do one of two things:

1) Turn many thousands of law-abiding citizens into felons overnight, even though the guns were legal at the time of purchase or receipt.

2) Demand that the whole country surrender 1.5 million guns and millions of magazines."

On the first 'ban':

"The National Institute of Justice found that the ban hadn’t reduced gun crime or crime involving “high capacity” magazines, and that the effects of renewing the ban were “likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.” It then added: “Assault weapons were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.”[9]

The Center for Disease Control released a study of gun control legislation, including the assault weapons ban and found “insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence.”[10]

"Summary

If gun control advocates want to actually have meaningful discussion and debate about the “assault weapon” and “high capacity” ban, they MUST address these questions:- Why ban cosmetic features?- Why ban guns used in a mere 2% of crime?- Why base gun control legislation on rare and statistically insignificant mass shootings to begin with?- Why ban magazines that have been consistently sized since their invention?- How would banning these magazines have saved lives, given that all a shooter needs is multiple magazines and 3 seconds of time (i.e. Cho)?- How will a ban on either these weapons or magazines reduce crime, since there are many millions of them legal and available anyway, especially since production has ramped up after the ban’s expiration?

And most importantly:

After a decade of failure, why assume that the bans will reduce violent crime THIS time around?"

TWW Comment: "Why did society close the mental hospitals?" (maybe that question counts as BS but the rest isn't)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

This image is copyrighted but that will not matter when the world ends.

Since the world will end on Friday TWW has decided to end hisgig as a blogger early so he can prepare for the END. You can also help. Since you will not be needing any of your money since the world will no longer be here think about your legacy and use the Donate button on this blog to e-send money to the Garbin Moraine foundation in care of TWW. Thanks for all of your past support. (Donations to GM are not tax deductible).

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Finally, something other than the tired old ban the guns versus "I have my rights" babbling.

"

I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother

Liza Long

Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants....."

see: http://thebluereview.org/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother/ for the rest of the story. Notice how the great 'do gooder' cause a while back of closing all of the mental hospitals has had its bad side.

PORTLAND -- Nick Meli... was at Clackamas Town Center ....when a masked man opened fire.

... Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar......"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Mr. BANANA made a house call today to install a new heating element in the water heater in the Garbin Moraine utility room. He and TWW went down to the family cabin and took a heating element out from down there and put it in at GM so there is enough hot water again. TWW promises to have a replacement element back in place at the cabin so it will be there if people need hot water over the New Year's Day holiday next year.

Friday, December 14, 2012

every time he goes into a building with a 'no guns' sign:If we finally want to deal seriously with multiple-victim public shootings, it is about time that we acknowledge a common feature of these attacks: With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms. The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, like others run by the chain around the country, displayed warning signs that it was prohibited to carry guns into the theater. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/30/new-gun-laws-will-do-nothing-to-stop-mass-shooting-attacks/#ixzz2F5JNMV7X

... the Surgeon General's report on TV violence in the next few days as people again blame the tools rather than the tool user? "The resulting Surgeon General's report and a follow-up report in 1982 by the National Institute of Mental Health identify these major effects of seeing violence on television:

Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others

Children may be more fearful of the world around them

Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others"

see: http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx for the source of the quoteTWW's rant: if TV cannot show people copulating on TV why can they show people killing each other? Which activity is more pornographic?

Sunday, December 09, 2012

Norwegians are notorious for wanting more personal space unless they live in New York City. This has an advantage when it comes to avoiding victimization by others (Norwegians like to make themselves as victims of their own making but not by others). Here is why:

The moral of the story is to never let other people get within 21 feet of you.

Friday, December 07, 2012

"George Zimmerman sued NBC on Thursday, alleging that the network defamed him when it edited the recording of his 911 call to police about the death of Trayvon Martin — to make Zimmerman sound like a “racist and predatory villain” for the sake of ratings."

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Monday, December 03, 2012

From the BIG GAME yesterday: "Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions, and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows?"source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/03/nbcs_bob_costas_goes_on_gun_control_rant_about_nfl_players_murder-suicide.htmlSo, since handguns are so bad why does President BO want to start by eliminating the 'assault rifles'? (AR stands for ArmaLite by the way not assault rifle) source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15If you want to learn more about why people use weapons in the wrong way see: http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx and next time you see people smashing each other on TV in a football game think of this article. And of course we need something from Youtube so here is a video of the police riding horses into a bar: